SIX MESPORD MAIL TIUBOMI
Your Health and Its Care
IT Dft WILLIAM BRADY. M. D.
Rstdar thould (ddrcu Inquiries oi D William Brady
IIS El Camiao. BtTWly Hill. Callt
8THAIGHTENI
Best prevention of bowing of
the legs is good nutrition espe
cially a regular ration of vita-
mln u inru
out Infancy
and the early
yean of child
hoodtoo .oft
en the baby's
vitamin D ra
tion is stopped
when the baby
is year old.
Besides the
dally ration of
vitamin D, life
in the ooen
Dr. Brady air and plenty
of exposure of the young child
is important to encourage the
growth of strong straight bones.
Finally plenty of exercise, ac
tive play, particularly running,
riding tricycle, pushmoblle, bi
cycle, horse-back and the like,
aids the development of straight
legs.
For youths or young adults
the usual operation is subcutan
eous osteotomy (cutting or saw.
ing the bone across through a
puncture or small Incision in the
skin), at the apex of the curve
of the shin bone (tibia), then ap
plication of rigid plaster of Par
is splints or cast from toes to
groin, with the leg straightened,
of course. The patient Is kept
off the feet for six weeks. Then
the splints or casts are removed
and the patient gradually re
sumes walking and general ac
tivity Just as tho there had been
a fracture of the leg.
I cannot inform any one what
such treatment will cost. That
Is a matter to discuss with the
surgeon. Likewise it Is for the
surgeon to decide which hospi
tal the patient is to enter, for
the operation. Finally, of course
no one. can guarantee anything
and no. reputable physician or
surgeon or specialist ever guar
antees anything. If you under
go surgical treatment for bow
leg you do so at your own peril
precisely as you do for any
other medical or surgical treat
ment. If I had bow-legs and youth
and the price I believe I'd have
my legs straightened as nearly
Eros .Again
By J. Hugh Pruett
Astronomer, General Extension
Division, Univ. of Oreg.
Can you fancy living on a
world so tiny that a few hours'
wolk would take vou entirely
around the globe, and where the
day Is only five hours long?
Would you be thrilled to see
another similar little world
only 10 miles from yours? If
so, consider migrating to the lit
tle planet Eros, which now is
gain In a position to be seen
through small telescope.
Xros, accidentally discovered
by photography in 16S8, has
' played an important role In as
tronomical measurements. This
little world moves on curious
orbit that in one part extends
beyond Mars but at another is
less than 14,000,000 miles from
the earth.
Eros goes through light varia
tions with a period of five hours
and 16 minutes, being three
times brighter when most lumi
nous than when staging a "fade
out". Some observations indi
cate that Eros resembles a fig
ure "8". This may be Inter
preted to mean that it Is really
two spheres revolving about
each other with a distance of
nine miles between them. Per
haps we get light from both
spheres part of the time, then
2Vs hours later one Is hidden
behind the other.
The sun's distance Is most
'easily obtained by the indirect
method of measuring the dis
tance to a nearby planet In
1931 when Eros came within
16,000,000 miles of the earth,
the whole astronomical brother,
hood was measuring the space
between our earth and this oth
er world. To Dr. H. Spencer
Jones, astronomer royal of Eng
land, was assigned the enormous
task of reducing, analyzing and
coordinating the observations.
For 10 years he and his assist
ants worked and calculated. In
1041 he announced that the
sun's distance, Instead of being
92800,000 miles the figure
long accepted was 93,003,000
miles. This has been accepted
and appears in recent textbooks.
Some of us made an interest
ing observation of Eros on Feb
ruary 28, 1938, with a 4-inch
refracting telescope. In the cen
ter of the field of view were
three little stars of equal
YICK SO CHINESE HERB CO.
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Prostate Gland Ecsema and all disorders
ol liver. Kidnev Trouble and other com
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CHINESE HERBS
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J. H. Uong, Herbalist
TuMdaj-, Jan. 1, 1141
NB BOW.LEGS
them, Just for my own peace of
as such surgery can straighten
mind.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Sodm
In tha Instruction of removing a
Elug of wax from tno far do you mean
use a teasooon of saleratus. baking
soda and blcardonate of atxlu that la
one spoon ot each of the three of a
teaspoon of the three mixed together?
(Mr. G. C.)
' Answer They are different com
mon names for the same thing so
dium bicarbonate. Use a heaping tea
spoonful of It in quart of comfort
aoly warm wate. to Irrigate the ear
Chronic Appandldtls
I have chronic appendicitis. Sev
eral have told me to take timothy
seed, steep it and drink the tea. Would
you advise this? Or Just take them
out and get it over with. Have just
found out what alia me. after suffer
ing off and on for a year or more.
(M. W.
Answer Might be safer to take 'em
out, show 'em a good time and then
ask them tf they will kindly refrain
from giving you trick medical advice.
There Is no objecUon to drinking all
the timothy seed tea you like. I don't
know what "chronio appendicitis"
would be there is no sucn condiUon.
so far as I can learn. My lnterpreta
Uon of the diagnosis is, well, old man,
we're all at sea, so whadaya say we
have a major biapsy, an exploratory
operation, a look sec? Mind Vou, this
la preclcely the treatment fd want,
as likely as not. ii 1 wera In your
shoes.
Weight of Head
A claims human head weighs 20 per
cent of total body weight. B beta a
Round of your fovorite pipe fuel the
ead welaha not mora than 10 ner
cent of the total body weight. We
leave it to you. (C. L. S.)
Answer rresn lull grown neaas in
prime condition weigh less than 6
per ceat of the total body weight.
Better let me try a nioeful of the
tomacco first my borrowing pipe.
There won't be enough left to do
either of you any harm.
iaie ueiivery
I am 34 and my first baby has
finally arrived. Please rush ma vour
Brady Baby Book so that I can relax
and enjoy my son. i (Mrs. O. C.)
Answer Better late tnan never. I
always say. Why didn't you send for
the booklet, also "Frenarinff for Mn.
ternity" months ago? For either
booklet send 10 -enta. fnr hnlh 9o
cents and a stamped pre-addressed en-
vv.upe. who oi any service man may
have either or both free if she pro
vides stamped pre-addrcsscd envelope.
rap nui uuub lur -Bin
I am In my 'teens and hive always
had trouble with my teeth, I mean
thev seem to be soft ami hnu b Int
of cavities. Are matteds and ice cream
good for me? This is a question much
argued in our crowd. (Miss J. M.)
Answer Not particularly. The milk.
If any, in the, pap, is good for you and
your teeth and your complexion and
everything. So is any and every kind
of cheese (not concotlons flavored and
named to resemble cheese), egg yolks,
Itvviia, nuis, peanuts, vcgeiauies good
0 eat raw (SUCh as turninit. nntntn.
carrot, cabbage) or slightly cooked. So
la exposure to sunlight. So Is vitamin
D taken Internally to supplement your
uiii . vivviaiiy uirougn tne winter
months.
(Copyright, 1S4S, by John F. Dills Co.)
Observable
brightness.! Which was Eros
was uncertain. But within 20
minutes one was getting out of
line; within an hour, this "wan
derer" was -below the others
which were fixed stars and
Was very much fnlntnr An
hour later it had regained its
Dngntness first noted. We had
witnessed a "fadeout." ,
; SLAYERS TO DIE ;
San Quentln. Calif,. Jan. 1
(U.R) The murderer of a six-year-
old Lassen county boy and the
killer of two persons in a gun
brawl outside a Los Angeles
dance hall will die in San Quen
tln prison's gas chamber at 10
a. m. January 8, Warden Clinton
Duffy announced today.
'LOSES HER GRIP On her
gun, that is. Ella Raines is the
lovely laying her pistol down
under the influence of John
Wayne's disarming tactics.
They're co-starred in "Tall In
the Saddle," RKO mystery
drama. Wayne's too hand
some a guy tor a lady to shoot,
anyhow.
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Belgians Massacred by Nazis
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This heap of dead women and children In Belgian town ol Stavelot gives
mute evidence of brutal atrocities committed by the Oerman army in Its
western front drive. Signal Corpe raoio-teieonoto.
Olive
Barber's
Observations
The home in which I'm stay.
ing has an electric range and
many radiators. Yet I'm think
ing wistfully of a certain wood
stove I know; a little .stove one
of whose lids is cracked; a little
stove with a rusty oven.
As I'm writing this, I m sit
ting In a big easy chair. The
bed I slept in last night was
soft; the covers warm and light
as down. The stairs down
which I came to this delightful
living room were wide and
thickly carpeted. In the dining
room 1 see a beautifully carved
buffet and the table has candles
on it and an ornate holiday cen
terpiece.. Yet I'm wishful for a little
wood stove with a rusty oven.
Were I where that rusty-ovened
stove Is, I'd stuff the fire box
with good thick fir bark, place
one of the wobbly kitchen
chairs before it, let down the
oven door and stick my feet In
the oven. For the temperature
here in Seattle is 22 and radi
ators, no matter where, are Just
a bunch of iron. They can. be
gilded and fancifully scrolled
and they're still Just cold iron,
uninfluenced by the hot water
which, theoretically, flows
through them.
You can draw up a chair and
plant your feet on their gilt and
their scrolls and develop chil
blains In no time at all. I might
blister my feet in the rusty lit
tie oven but between chilblains
and blisters, I'll take the latter
every time. For ho matter how
deluxely acquired, a chilblain
is still a chilblain.
If I must freeze to death, I'd
like to do it in a dramatic man
ner; say In the far North with
the aurora borealis bannering
my departing spirit into the
great beyond. And the lonely
howl of a -wolf is Just my idea
of a fitting prelude to harp
twanging.
But this romantic departure
Is denied me. Nothing so musi
cal as a wolf's howl will float
above my bier but instead the
tortured bleating from the radio
of a Jive band. And what soul, I
ask you, can depart with proper
decorum to the strains of boogie
wooglel
Frozen to death In an uphol
stered chair with my feet plant,
ed on a radiator! What a pro
saic death for a woman who had
hoped that, however common
place her life had been, her
death might be dramaticl
MORE VICTORY SHIPS
Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 (U.R)
Officials of the Kaiser ship
yard today started preparations
for building 2S more Victory
ships at the Oregon yard and
six more tankers at the Swan
Island yard.
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KAI.S (CHS) 1330, Portland.
KEX (NBC-bluel 1190. Portland
KOA (NUC-lllut and MUS) 1310
Spokane. KGO (NBl-Ulue) 810
San Francisco; KOW (NBC-Ked)
620, Portland: . KJR (NUC BIuel
1000 Seattle. KNX (CBS) 1010
Lot Angeles, KOA (NBC-Red) 830
Denver KOIN (CBS) 970, Port
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Seattle, KPO (NBC-Bed) 680
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H:1S D. m. Dick Tracv. BN.
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Lone Ranger, MBS; Let Yourself Go,
itr? HPfiST . NBC: Jack
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NOT OPTIMISTIC
OVER WAR'S END
With American Forces on the
Western Front, Dec. 30 (U.R)
Battle-weary soldiers at the front
both American and German
have no i-ptimistic outlook for an
early end of the war and take a
grim view of what lies ahead in
1945.
Lt. Col. John. H. Mason. 30.
(1131 Bellagio St., Los Angeles,
Calif.,) winner of the Silver and
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Bronx Star and wearer of the
Purple Heart, gives the average
feeling of men in the front lines.
"Ever since I landed in France
two days after LVday," he said,
"I've heard people say the war
will be over in another 10 days
but I don't believe it
"1 think I'll be away from
home at this time next year,
either because the situation over
here still calls for American
troops or because I'll be in no
shaye for my family to receive
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Mason, commander of the 3rd
battalion of the 357th infantry
of the 90th division, felt pretty
blue as he recalled bow his out
fit pulled back across the Saar
after 16 days in the Dillingen
area.
"That's the first time we ever
retreated from any place and we
sure hated to do it," he said. "I
guess you can say I expect to do
lots of fighting in the new year."
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sel, felt much the same way.
"I guess," the sergeant said,
"there will be lots of bitter fight
ing in the days ahead end I'm
glad I am a prisoner so I don't T
need to be In it I don't know
anything about new secret weap
ons planned for 1943 but I think
we still have a .chance to win.
I'm happier than I was at thi
time last year, even though I'm
prisoner, because I'm still alive."
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